Folk Feet Dance Workshops: Yiddish Dance Party

03/15/09

4:00PM - 7:00PM

The Center for Traditional Music and Dance's An-sky Institute for Jewish Culture, the Bensonhurst Jewish Community Home and Brooklyn Arts Council's Folk Feet Program present...

Tantshoyz Yiddish Dance Party
at the Bensonhurst Jewish Community Home
featuring master dance leader Deborah Strauss.

Bensonhurst JCH
7802 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn

4-7 PM

Lace up your dancing shoes for an afternoon of traditional East European Jewish dancing led by master dance leader Deborah Strauss. Live music will be provided by some of New York's leading klezmer musicians, including Jeff Warschauer (guitar), Dimitri Slepovitch (clarinet) and Pete Rushefsky (tsimbl/hammered duclimer). Families of all ages and beginners welcome!

For further information call 917-326-9659.

ADMISSION FREE!

Support for the An-sky Institute for Jewish Culturewas provided to the Center for Traditional Music & Dance by the Forward Association, the Atran Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts Folk Arts Program, a State agency, and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Folk Feet Dance Workshops are presented in cooperation with Brooklyn Arts Council and its Folk Arts traditional dance project, Folk Feet. For more information, go to the Brooklyn Arts Council website. Folk Feet is made possible, in part, by Con Edison, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and The New York Community Trust.

Related Categories

Dance, Traditional / Culturally Specific